• LWD@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We can compare Lemmy to Reddit. Lemmy has an API fully available to data scrapers, and requires an email address; right now, Reddit has neither.

    We constantly think about how public facing data is treated; after all, Facebook is not the same as Lemmy either.

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      1 year ago

      Data scrapers don’t need an API, but you are still wrong - there is a Data API for Reddit that anyone can use. If you want to use it at a commercial scale, you just have to pay for it.

      How exactly do you think ChatGPT was trained?

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        1 year ago

        In other words, for mass data scraping, Lemmy makes it easier for large corporations. Which was my point.